DVD
Days that shook the world. The complete first season plus the pilot
Edition
Widescreen version.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Publication Information
[United States] : BBC Video ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2008.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (770 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Rating: Not rated.
Added Uniform Title
Summary
Through dramatic reconstruction, eyewitness accounts, and archival footage, each episode pieces together the stories of the moments in history - human tragedies, scientific breakthroughs, and calamitous events that have profoundly affected the world.
Contents
- Pilot: First in flight: the Wright Brothers and the moon landing
- The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the death of Diana
- The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and the death of Hitler
- The assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the release of Nelson Mandela
- Hiroshima
- The murder of the Romanovs and the fall of the Berlin Wall
- Kristallnacht and the birth of Israel
- Tutankhamun's tomb and the Rosetta Stone
- The first nuclear reaction and Chernobyl
- Black September and Lockerbie
- The assassination of JFK and the resignation of Nixon
- Marconi's first transatlantic radio transmission and the Concorde's first transatlantic flight
- Chuck Yeager and Bluebird.